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The Flyers’ Game 3 Shirts Aren’t Nasty Enough; In Fact – They’re a Little Soft
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Not gonna lie, it feels like a Game 3 loss. Owen Tippett is out. Noah Cates is out. And these are the Flyers’ playoff shirts:
Look, it’s good to be positive, especially since there are too many miserable losers in Philadelphia sports. “Yeah the Eagles won 70 to 3, but they gave up a field goal!” Stuff like that. Or, radio hosts complaining about Jalen Hurts the day after he wins Super Bowl MVP.
But this shirt feels like we’re sitting around the campfire singing fuckin’ Kumbayahh. Sounds like something your mom would tell you before the 9 a.m. Saturday game. This isn’t Friday night drop-in hockey at Hatfield Ice. This is Game 3 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. And Rick Tocchet just gave everybody a great quote about not being dead. He said the boys have been put into the grave and climbed out of the grave before. That’s why the shirt should have been Gritty climbing out of a burial plot and giving Logan Stankoven the Mandible Claw, like Mankind did to The Big Show on SmackDown! back in 1999:
Mankind lost this match (it was a tag team bout with The Rock and The Undertaker), but that’s beside the point. I just think, personal opinion, the Flyers need to further embrace the nasty side of their identity, as we talked about last week. We need reprehensible mongrels in the building. We need Gritty beating up faux-Penguins and launching their corpses over the railing. We need Megadeth Security fans in the building to booooooooooooooo the everliving shit out of Seth Jarvis and his white trash Manitoba bumpkin buddies. We need to empty Arkham Asylum and make the Hurricanes players feel so unwelcome that they’ll be begging and pleading to go back to their small-time college campus arena in North Cackalacky. None of this ring around the rosie bullshit.
As Peter Laviolette once famously said: “I want to see people rip their fucking heart out of their fucking chest this period.“
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com